By Eric Jacinto

Yesterday, former Philadelphia Phillies and current Los Angeles Dodgers' second baseman, Chase Utley announced that he will retire after this season. He came up 15 years ago, with the Philadelphia Phillies and his first major league hit was a grandslam. Chase Utley spent 13+ seasons with the Phillies before being traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers on August 19th, 2015 for two prospects.

Chase Utley was a huge part of the 2008 Philadelphia Phillies championship team. Chase is arguably the best second baseman in Phillies' history no question about that. He's one of the ten best second baseman in MLB history. Is he a Hall of Famer? I think he's a borderline Hall of Famer.

His Phillies career slash line for: .282/.366/.481. He hit 233 home-runs, driving in 916 runs (RBIs), stealing 142 bases and was hit 173 times. His career postseason slash line is: .224/.364/.410, he's hit 10 home-runs and driving in 27 RBIs.

Chase is a 6x All-Star (2006-2010 and 2014) and won the Silver Slugger award four times (2006-2009). He is known for his epic World Series speech in 2008.

Chase Utley, will make is final series appearance in Philadelphia from July 23-25th. I'm pretty sure he will start in at least one of those games and I'm pretty sure that the Phillies fans will come out and give him one last final goodbye to Chase unless they met in the playoffs which could happen.

THANK YOU CHASE UTLEY! The former Philadelphia Phillies player has announced that he will retire at the end of the 2018 season after a 16-year career. ⚾️ pic.twitter.com/CtZsjV49UJ